6/17 It's great! I found it at Ossilovi's. He says there isn't another like it out of Asia." "I should hope not! Though I doubt if it ever saw Asia." "Nan, you're positively unbearable! One more speech of that sort, and I'll be right down mad at you." "Forgive me, Patty, I did let my feelings run away with me. It's all right for you to do these things if you want to, but it doesn't seem like you,--and it jars, somehow." They went downstairs, and soon Sam Blaney came to take Patty away. He was not in evening dress, their coterie did not approve of anything so conventional. This was against him in Nan's eyes, for she was a stickler for the formalities. |